Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick s final movie starred Tom Cruise and then wife Nicole Kidman in a dense story of sexual obsession and mysterious cloaked gatherings in stately homes. Elveden Hall has never looked so magnificent with its mix of Gothic and Indian architecture forming the backdrop to an almost religious looking orgy which Tim Cruise s character finds himself embroiled in. A masterful mix of location, lighting and production design.
Mildenhall:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Pierce Bond is James Bond in this tense multi-media drama co-starring Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. RAF Mildenhall doubled as a US Airforce base in the South Pacific after a British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. A parade of palm trees forms a silent honour guard alongside the runway to disguise its decided untropical UK origins. Bond has other strong links with Suffolk thanks to
Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Stanley Kubrick s final movie starred Tom Cruise and then wife Nicole Kidman in a dense story of sexual obsession and mysterious cloaked gatherings in stately homes. Elveden Hall has never looked so magnificent with its mix of Gothic and Indian architecture forming the backdrop to an almost religious looking orgy which Tim Cruise s character finds himself embroiled in. A masterful mix of location, lighting and production design.
Mildenhall:
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997): Pierce Bond is James Bond in this tense multi-media drama co-starring Jonathan Pryce and Michelle Yeoh. RAF Mildenhall doubled as a US Airforce base in the South Pacific after a British warship is sunk in the South China Sea. A parade of palm trees forms a silent honour guard alongside the runway to disguise its decided untropical UK origins. Bond has other strong links with Suffolk thanks to
Mr Haylock said: The first person Ralph looked at when coming out of a take was me, to see if he got the dialect right, but rather than run over to him each time we worked out a bit of sign language. Thumbs up was obvious he got it right, a beckoning meant he would come over and he would practise again, and there was a pucker of the lips for the now sound.
Behind the scenes of filming for The Dig in 2019.
- Credit: Screen Suffolk We were blowing kisses at each other throughout the takes and a few eyebrows were raised, as you can imagine.
The beauty of Norney Grange – and why The Dig didn’t film at Tranmer House
The makers of Netflix s acclaimed Sutton Hoo drama chose not to shoot at Edith Pretty s former home. Was it not grand enough?
Carey Mulligan on location at Norney Grange for The Dig
Credit: Netflix
The choice of locations in film and television dramas must occasionally excite the wrath of pedants: we have all seen Tudor extravaganzas filmed in Georgian palaces. Harder perhaps to understand is the use of Norney Grange, a fine Arts and Crafts house in Surrey by CFA Voysey, as the body double of Tranmer House, a handsome but pretty standard Edwardian Tudor revival house in Suffolk, in Netflix’s The Dig.
“When I was growing up in Cambridge, I didn’t come to Suffolk much. I had a few trips to Ipswich for swim meets but that was about it. I certainly didn’t know the area around Woodbridge and when we went to look at for the film, I was completely blown away and fell in love with the area.”
He said that Suffolk looked nothing like the rest of Britain and very much had its own identity. “It reminded me a lot of the Netherlands actually – very flat. There are lots of rivers and waterways crossing the landscape which gives it a very Dutch feel. I like the fact that Basil has to transport himself and his bicycle by ferry, by boat, to get to where he needs to go.”